By Terry Parris Jr.
The U.S. military sprayed about 19 million gallons of defoliants during the Vietnam War. The chemicals mostly Agent Orange killed the jungle brush and denied the enemy cover, but also may have caused cancer and other serious medical ailments in millions of Vietnamese people and American service members.
Jim Smith, 65, who served on the ammunition ship Butte, believes he’s one of them.
Before he left for Vietnam in 1972, Smith remembers seeing a newsreel about Agent Orange. But he wasn’t concerned at the time.
“I didn’t think it was going to affect me … I didn’t have boots on the ground in Vietnam,” 
Smith said. “I had no idea that this stuff would probably get into the rivers and flow out to the sea.”
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